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Kathryn Tucker Windham (1918–2011)

Autor(a) de 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey

30 Works 444 Membros 16 Reviews

About the Author

Kathryn Tucker Windham was born in Selma, Alabama on June 2, 1918. After graduating from Huntingdon College, she became a police reporter for the Alabama Journal and was one of the first women to cover the police beat for a major southern newspaper. She is best known for her series of true ghost mostrar mais story collections. In 1974, she was the featured storyteller in the second National Storytelling Festival, which led to a weekly commentary on Alabama Public Radio and on NPR's All Things Considered. She was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor in 2003. She died on June 12, 2011 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1918-06-02
Data de falecimento
2011-06-12
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Selma, Alabama, USA
Local de falecimento
Selma, Alabama, USA
Locais de residência
Thomasville, Alabama, USA
Educação
Huntingdon College (1939)
Ocupação
reporter
storyteller
radio commentator
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2.5 stars. I picked up this slim volume of essays/memoir after a period of reading up on Harper Lee. She was apparently an admirer of this storyteller. After listening to one of her stories on NPR, I can almost hear her voice as I read these stories (which makes me think this would have been such a nice audiobook with narration by the author). They certainly come from a particular time and place. Minstrel shows, a vague dislike of the KKK, and black housekeepers and farm help are discussed without examination. Some stories reminded me of the kinds of tales passed down in my own family - phrases and stories that become such a part of family history that they imbed themselves in the family's everyday language. The book was not stunning, but those were the parts of it that made me smile.… (mais)
 
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CarolHicksCase | 1 outra resenha | Mar 12, 2023 |
I need something different and it's been waiting for me on my shelf.
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Done now. It's a cute title and fun to ponder but the story didn't really bring it home for me. It starts with "I can't recall when I became aware that an old woman was nudging her way into my life." Throughout the book she refers to this alter ego as "She". The book is mostly full of her memories. Her remembering. Example: The song her cousin sang when she removed splinters. "she was the best splinter remover in the house". Another: The reasons she got woke in the night (to go to the circus, to see shooting stars)

I'm not that fond of memoirs so it didn't work so well for me.
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Corinne2020 | 1 outra resenha | Aug 22, 2021 |
I could only fully read two of the stories. 'The Ghost Collie at Scataway' and 'The Curse of Barnsley Gardens'. I guess I liked the idea of the book more than the actual book. They may have been too historical and not scary enough for my taste.
 
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Corinne2020 | Aug 20, 2021 |
The book is intended for children so you won’t find these stories to be even remotely scary…but rather true tales of haunted places in Alabama. The "Jeffrey" part refers to the friendly little ghost named Jeffrey, who appeared in the Windham house in Selma, Alabama years ago. I don’t know when I have read stories of this type told so beautifully. These are indeed “Southern treasures”.
 
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Carol420 | outras 5 resenhas | Jan 29, 2020 |

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Obras
30
Membros
444
Popularidade
#55,179
Avaliação
3.9
Resenhas
16
ISBNs
78
Idiomas
1

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